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Latitude: 56.0083 / 56°0'29"N
Longitude: -4.7283 / 4°43'41"W
OS Eastings: 229997
OS Northings: 682840
OS Grid: NS299828
Mapcode National: GBR 0D.TKRH
Mapcode Global: WH2M4.B7PT
Plus Code: 9C8Q275C+8M
Entry Name: War Memorial, Hermitage Park, Helensburgh
Listing Name: Sinclair Street, Hermitage Park, War Memorial and Walled Garden with Ornamental Gates
Listing Date: 8 September 1993
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 379281
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB34872
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Helensburgh, Hermitage Park, War Memorial
ID on this website: 200379281
Location: Helensburgh
County: Argyll and Bute
Town: Helensburgh
Electoral Ward: Helensburgh Central
Traditional County: Dunbartonshire
Tagged with: War memorial
A N Paterson, 1922. War memorial facing ornamental rectangular pond in walled garden with ornamental gates.
Memorial: unveiling ceremony, 25 June 1992. Cream sandstone ashlar. Stepped base, tall plinth surmounted by domed arcaded rotunda, ashlar urns with flaming torches in every 2nd bay of rotunda, ashlar dome with copper leaves
Rubble boundary walls. Fine 2-leaf cast-iron gates and railings with wreath, palm leaves and thistle wreath decoration.
The walled garden was part of the Hermitage House estate which was presented to the town council for $3,750 in order to create a park. The house, after use during the war as an auxiliary hospital, was allowed to deteriorate and was demolished in 1963. The War Memorial in the same league as those designed by the Imperial War Graves Commission, if on a diminutive scale.
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